Walk into kindergartens in various countries and feel the different regional design (including the equipment specifications of kindergartens in various places)

Regional activities are a form of education commonly used in kindergartens, a learning activity that children like very much, and an important form of educational activities to promote the reform of early childhood education. However, for young children, it is often difficult to adapt to the needs of complex or single learning environments, and dividing the classroom into interest learning corners with different functions allows children to carry out independent learning and exploration according to their own conditions. Let's take a look at how kindergartens in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan design activity areas, and what are their good ways to learn from.

United States:

The area design focuses on all aspects of play + art + science experimentation,

Edutainment and stimulation of children's independent exploration

The appearance design of kindergartens in the United States is not much different from that of Chinese kindergartens, and the design of the activity area in the classroom is very different from China, and entering the classroom of American kindergartens is like coming to the "colorful city", "amusement park" and "flower and fruit mountain". According to the functional area division of kindergarten classrooms in the United States (as shown in the figure below), to summarize the advantages of the indoor activity area design of kindergartens in the United States, there are mainly the following three aspects:

1. Set up home areas and building block areas according to the key entertainment projects,

Inspire young children to better explore independently

In order to allow children to better carry out independent exploration, kindergartens in the United States have specially set up home areas and building block areas in the activity area to entertain and learn.

(1) DramaticPlay Area

Through full role-playing games, such as sales clerks, firefighters, teachers, doctors and nurses, etc., children not only enhance social interaction and collaboration, but also help to understand the meaning of these social roles. American kindergartens set up a separate area in the classroom to provide children with various scenes and props for playing home.

In order to make each character area more family life, when arranging the family environment area, you can have the following reference points:

a. Use secure hooks to place hats, bags, and other small items;

b. Use drawers to store the doll's clothes and small pendants;

c. Make a small shoe rack to place various shoes;

d. Use coat racks to hang relatively large pieces of clothing;

e. Use small baskets for plastic food models;

f. Use small plastic boxes to hold small accessories.

(2) Block Area building block area

In order to improve children's independent exploration ability, it is necessary to provide them with a relatively spacious space, and the kindergarten classroom in the United States will have a building block area, and they are all large block blocks, which pose a shape, usually requiring several children to work together. In the hands-on process, it not only exercises the coordination of the body and brain, but also helps to cultivate teamwork.

2. On the basis of the functional area, the classroom is divided into dry and wet areas to facilitate children's entertainment

In kindergartens in the United States, each area will be specially divided into dry and wet areas according to the characteristics of the activity area to facilitate children's entertainment. For example, their reading corner is suitable for dry areas, art areas, and science areas are suitable for wet areas.

(1) Art Area

The art area is a place for children to paint, so it is usually located in a wet area. In the art zone, children can draw, color, and use their imagination.

(2) Science Area

A science zone dedicated to the exploration of nature and science, also located simultaneously in the wetlands. There will be many small experiments that need to be done in the science area, there will be water, sand, mud, etc., and the science activity area located in the wet area, no matter how dirty the children are.

3. Pay more attention to creating a comfortable and pleasant reading environment and stimulate children to cultivate reading hobbies

Reading Corner

In American education, children's reading is very serious, and children must have a gentle and comfortable environment as much as possible, so that they love reading and read happily. Therefore, in American kindergartens, the arrangement of reading corners needs to be very quiet, warm, comfortable and warm.

Usually in a quiet corner of the classroom, there is a large soft carpet on which toddlers can sit and read, as well as cushions and cushions, and bookshelves within reach of the children filled with various picture books. The teacher can sit in front of the reading corner and tell the children a story, or they can put a small whiteboard next to it to inspire the children to think about the stories and characters in the book.

United Kingdom: The corner activity venue is highly arbitrary,

Stimulate children's interest and engagement, and value personalized development

In the UK, kindergartens usually accept children aged 2-5, and children over 5 years old enter formal schools for compulsory education. Each activity room in the British kindergarten has a rich variety of areas, there are areas for children to explore, there are play areas for children to lie freely, there is a reading area with a long row of books, there is a computer reading area, there is an art area full of paint... These areas are carpeted and have a small and warm décor.

The most important thing is that they are all in the sight of young children without exception, and children can take and take it at any time, and the design of activity places in each district corner is highly arbitrary, and children can freely match, and they can also participate and interact in various districts at any time. To sum up, there are mainly the following characteristics:

1. The corner activity area has many low structure and multi-functional materials, and children can freely combine and match at will

Most of the activity spaces in British kindergartens will be scattered with low-structure, multi-functional toy materials. These materials are common and common, but they fulfill the child's desire to participate in the challenge and allow the child to enjoy the freedom to choose the material. There are three main features:

Activity Area:

(1) The material has no fixed gameplay

Many materials do not have a fixed function, and there is no teacher to set the gameplay, children can use materials according to their own ideas, and there is no fixed combination.

(2) There are no regional restrictions for corner activities

Any material is not limited to a certain area, children can choose materials across regions and freely combine. The type of play is not affected by the function of the area, and children can dress up the classroom and environment with any material in any area or room, and can also create their own unique "artwork", which is particularly arbitrary.

(3) Careful placement and setting

There are also designated places for the placement of materials, but the premise must be convenient for young children. Every wall and every corner is plastered with children's proud works.

2. The dedicated activity room focuses on versatility, and children can be free to entertain according to their preferences

Dedicated activity rooms in UK kindergartens are generally versatile. For example, the function room is a place for children to show their talents, and the walls are often listed with pictures of children's works or children's activities, which are changed regularly.

The small stage is a space for children of different grades to report to their parents every Friday, with sound and lighting. Because the space is large, it is also used as a dining room, and children can bring their own food for lunch, and can also be used as a music room and a game room, and children can have fun according to their own preferences in this area.

Japan: Event areas are designed around entertainment and socializing,

Stimulate engagement and interest, and focus on developing social skills

Most of the design of the classroom area of Japanese kindergartens is relatively simple, with simple wood-colored floors and roofs, white walls, and bright floor-to-ceiling windows as the main elements of kindergartens. Japanese kindergartens often take great care to design entertainment areas in order to make children "more active" and stimulate children's participation and interest. Most of the activity areas adopt open, free and non-enclosed spaces, focusing on the cultivation of sociability between children.

1. Entertainment area: Build entertainment scenes with various natural materials to stimulate participation and interest

The indoor entertainment areas are designed according to the height and physique of the children, using different materials and heights. There are no cartoonish decorations and colorful slides, and in any available space, fun slides and ropeways are designed using wood and simple nets.

At the same time, in the selection of materials, we will try to use natural materials such as wood, iron, and glass, and truly perceive through the different touches of each material, and gradually develop the emotional thinking of life.

2. Activity area: Most of them use open, free and non-enclosed space, focusing on social cultivation

In early childhood education in Japan, kindergarten is not only a place of learning, but also the first social environment that children enter when they enter society, where they should learn to get along with others.

Therefore, in the use and design of space, the kindergarten design will fully consider the relationship between people, consider the problem of communication, repeatedly deliberate the children's activity area, break through the solidified space pattern of the domestic corridor connecting the classroom, most of them adopt open, free non-enclosed space, pay attention to the connection between indoor functions and the communication and interaction between indoor and outdoor environments, so as to increase their opportunities to contact with others.

Here's how:

(1) Japanese kindergartens will first design semi-open activity areas according to children of different ages, and then effectively connect these activity areas according to the different heights of children. In this way, children of different ages can also see other people. They are respected in their own world and are able to understand how other children play, and only then will they have more respect for others.

(2) In order to enhance interactivity, designers have designed their own activity areas for each child. In the large space divided into two floors, each child has an exclusive nursing area, which will give them a sense of domain, and after having their own domain, they will try to communicate with others and find companions. Behind the seemingly simple design is the insight and comfort of the child's heart.

The fun of the educational environment can increase the child's sense of identity, in the interesting space environment to make the child have a strong sense of security, but also in line with the child's naturally curious character, so that the child can better adapt to the environment, so in the kindergarten planning and design should take the child's position as the design foothold, create a kindergarten fun space, create a harmonious children's growth environment.

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